New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION (New York) receives grants from 1058 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,733,965 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($5,047,694). 436 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 1,058
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $72M
What American Foundation for Suicide Prevention does
Mission
To saves lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and support programs: we educate clinicians, other mental health professionals, workplaces, and the general public about suicide prevention and how to recognize signs of those at risk. We also provide programs and information for surviving family and friends after a suicide.
$24,028,645 spent$440,618 earned by the program62% of program spendingWe fund research to improve interventions and train clinicians in suicide prevention.
$10,104,420 spentof which $8,304,295 as grants26% of program spendingAdvocacy programs: we manage a network of advocates across the country that help educate legislators about federal, state and local policies that will save lives.
$4,811,668 spent$55,509 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,944,733.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $72M to $92M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Robert Gebbia
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Ray Paul Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 129 funders to 332 funders, grant income rose $680k → $6.3M.
86 of 1058 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1058 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 24% · 2022 16% · 2023 21% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 49 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 34 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION has grown faster than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $382k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$382k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Under the Same Sky Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION?
- AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION (New York) receives grants from 1058 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,733,965 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($5,047,694). 436 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION have?
- IRS filings report 1058 organizations giving $34,733,965 in grants to AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION, 436 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,047,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1058 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing